FIRST WASTE WATER MONITORING DEVICE IN VIETNAM

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment in the southern province of Binh Duong inaugurated the first automatic monitoring device for waste water, for measuring waste water from industrial parks within the province.

Pollution threatens City water supply

HCM CITY — The pollution on Sai Gon River has become worse over the years as increasing industrialisation along the river bank threatens the main water source of HCM City.

HCM City IPZs on the way to ecology

By the end of March 2011, industrial and processing zones (IPZ) in HCM City had attracted $7.7 billion in investment capital, including $6.679 billion from 1,216 valid projects.

Enterprises cannot seek loans to build water treatment plants

Under the water supply and drainage development plan from 2025 until 2050 approved by the Prime Minister in 2009, 100 percent of industrial zones in Vietnam must have concentrated water treatment plants, or they will have to stop operation.

Industrial parks fined for waste

HCM CITY — HCM City environmental authorities have fined several industrial parks after catching many factories inside them discharging untreated effluents directly into the environment